User guide

Chapter 7: Operation - Administrator Functions
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Autoscan and Autoskip
As an administrator, you can press F6 to turn autoscanning on and off.
When autoscanning is turned on and you press Esc to leave the OSUI
screen, Paragon sequentially and automatically switches from one
channel port to the next, displaying each channel port's video for the
duration of the user's global scan rate or the channel port's individual scan
rate (see User Profile Customization (on page 76)), starting over at port
1 whe
n it reaches the last channel port.
In a cascaded system, when the scan reaches a channel port to which a
subsidiary Paragon switch is attached, it “drops down” to the subsidiary's
channel ports and scans them before resuming with the higher-level
channel ports.
To stay on a given channel port while Paragon is switching between
channels one by one due to autoscanning, you must turn off autoscanning.
Press the hot key (default: Scroll Lock) twice quickly to trigger the OSUI
when the desired channel is displayed and press F6 to turn off the function.
The word “Scan” at the bottom of the OSUI will appear in black when
autoscan is off or yellow when autoscan is on.
In Paragon II's default setting, autoscanning will display all channel ports
(including vacant ones, which are not connected to any devices), except
those occupied by servers that the user has no rights to access, that is, the
servers that are not in one of the user's permitted groups—see the section
Group Settings (Access Rights) (on page 115). To allow a user to see
se
rvers that he or she cannot otherwise access, an administrator must set
“Display All Computers” to “Yes” (see the section System Configuration
(on page 100)). To force the system to skip over va
cant channel ports, an
administrator must turn on autoskipping.
After logging into Paragon II, administrators can press F7 to turn
autoskipping on and off. When autoskipping is on, Paragon will
automatically skip vacant channel ports during autoscanning or when a
user tries to switch to such a port manually. The word “Skip” at the bottom
of the OSUI will appear in black when autoskip is off or yellow when
autoskip is on.
Power Management
An administrator can control power to connected devices directly via the
Paragon II OSUI. To use the power management features of Paragon II,
you need Raritan's power strips in one of these models, depending on
your needs:
Product family Number of
outlets
Rack space Corresponding device
option in the OSUI
DPCR8 series 8 1U rack mount PCR8